March 18, 2026

Do you get more headphones?

Yeah, I came back from vacation to all these packages.

Nice. And they're all fucking headphones.

Yeah. Which ones are your favorite?

I don't know. The ones without your wax on them, I think.

It's like the guy at the vape place in China who has to test every vape.

There's just a guy who sticks all the headphones in his ears

to make sure there's just a little bit of wax on him when he sends them out.

Yeah. Well, these only one of them.

I got you go in your actual ears.

The rest are like over ear type things.

They were they were very affordable.

Yeah, I saw the over ear ones.

I can't wear those. Oh, why?

Oh, there's cauliflower ears.

My ears are too big.

Oh, OK. Did you wrestle or something?

No, I'm smart.

Piece of shit.

I don't know.

What's your skull shape like?

That's pointed on the top.

I don't know what that means.

Maybe it means I'm a good basset hound.

I have a phrenology bust in here somewhere.

Let me bust it out.

I'll see where where your smart hole is.

You're going to do a Django on chain thing.

Or you invite me to dinner and cut the skull open to some other Aaron or some

other of one of my family members that you boiled.

You call it skeleton.

You call it quackery.

I call it science.

So yeah, to each of their own.

How was your vacay?

Animal was good.

Uh, had a good time.

So I went to a Panama wedding by the canal or the exit to the canal.

So it was like this nice, steady drum beat of oil tankers going by.

I was actually pretty romantic.

But, um, yeah, you know, Pamela was great.

Another one of those Central American cities where, uh, you know, the haves and

have nots are very evident.

And we stayed this part of town.

We're staying like a really shitty part of town, but it's the only nice place.

And oh my God, what the hell is that noise?

That was a slack.

They closed.

It's like PTSD.

You forgot what that sound was.

I just heard this knocking in my head and I was like, oh, anyway.

Stayed in this really nice Airbnb in the shittiest part of town.

We ended up going on this tour and as we're coming back from the tour,

the tour is supposed to drop us off at this like hotel,

but they're passing through, you know, the part town we were staying in.

And the tour guy was like, and this is the, you know, the favelas and the kind of,

you know, this is the, the kind of less fortunate part of town, you know,

a lot of working class, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And we go, stop the bus is where we're staying.

And she was like, oh, what?

And then we hopped out.

We said, see it.

And all the bus people were like, oh, like I said, explains why they kept,

you know, trying to take our wallets or whatever during the tour.

But, uh, yeah, it was a rough in it a little bit.

No, not at all.

It's just when we would get out from our Airbnb, so we had to walk to

like the hotel venue and stuff like that.

I was in like a suit, like a, you know, nice linen suit with, you know,

new boots and all this stuff and like walking by these street dogs that, you know,

We're eating other street dogs and there's trash everywhere.

And and I was like, hmm, this is a let's not come by this way at night.

And we forgot about that.

And then we did come down the street at night.

And it was a it was one of those things where like is barely lit.

You just see silhouettes of things.

And I'm like clip clopping in my, you know, lizard boots or whatever the hell they were.

And you're going to show up on some CCC TV footage or whatever from on live leak or something.

Yeah, but I would deserve it. That's the problem.

I think I added an extra C there.

Is it three C's or two C's? C C TV. That's it. Yeah.

Close, close condition, close, close circuit.

That's the one. Anywho.

Well, I watched an NBA press conference.

Well, just the highlights of where they they're like, we fix video games

and it's just this horrific, like it's just this AI

like male female model thing of like now, now the now the horrific

Things in video games look beautiful like no, they don't.

But what were what were they trying to?

What was the problem they were trying to solve?

Or what was the solution they made for the problem that didn't exist?

They said, don't you hate it when you play video games and some artists

you've never heard of, you'll never even look as his or her names up in the credits.

They make someone's face and you just hate it.

What if AI could upscale it and kind of add these weird on

Canny Valley sort of polar express type faces to existing video game characters.

So the bodies are still kind of, you know, video gamey, but their faces look like real

life. And it's like, I don't know what problem we're solving here.

But what's the application? I mean, is it like, it's just games like golden eye.

And then you put this magic on and then suddenly they have these weird bodies,

but, you know, smooth faces. I think I think it was supposed to do the bodies.

I honestly didn't I didn't look that hard because I was like this just looks like garbage

and it was the whole thing of well, we're just we're just testing this. These are just tools

that, you know, developers can make better. But then apparently they're running it off

of like 250 90s and like people can't buy the 150 90. And what I don't know. I I realize

I have games from like PlayStation one. I haven't played yet. So I'm just going to stick to those.

What would it mean for gaming for if no one could afford PCs anymore?

I mean, they had to rent their PCs from the cloud.

That's what it's kind of becoming.

It's essentially if anything breaks right now costs twice as much as it did last year.

I got very lucky for whatever reason I got in my head.

I think my PC was just old enough.

It was like for pushing four or five years.

And I was like, I want to switch to AMD and I want 128 gigs of RAM.

And I just I went all out and it it cost a fraction of what it costs today.

So like I just was super fortunate, but I can never buy anything ever again.

Yes. So to answer your question, yes, they want you to do cloud gaming.

They want you to sign up for GeForce now or Amazon Luna or whatever.

And just be like, isn't it just better if you don't own the game?

You don't own the hardware. You just rent it. I'm like, right.

But what if I want to play Smashing Drive, a very obscure utter crap Xbox game

on an emulator like, but you got to, you can't do that.

And I'm like, okay, well, there's, there's a lack of freedom there that I don't even

want to consider.

So, yeah.

Well, do you think because consoles have to use video cards too, right?

Or they don't know exactly.

They have like a custom may I think I haven't followed this last generation.

I've just been pretty much anything after Xbox one.

I'm like, is a mystery to me.

I kind of just stopped caring and following it.

I didn't even consider getting a PS5 or the new X,

but like it was also happening during the pandemic too.

So it was like hard to get stuff.

And I was like, yeah, I don't see a point.

The last I checked it was a TI makes like custom video cards that, you know,

they're all it's all streamlined and it's all like on one board or whatever.

I'm not sure at one point in video was doing it, but I think it's all a TI.

So yeah, that was the other thing too was valve.

They're making this thing called, you know, steam machine again.

And they did this a while ago with like these Linux gaming machines and they were going to

put it out and they have to do a delay because, you know, where'd all the RAM go?

You know, AI data centers, oops, all RAM.

Yeah, they delayed that and it's probably going to jump up to like $1,200 for this like

a little micro PC that can not play much.

I mean, it probably is good as like a little handheld or something.

But yeah, everything's going up in price.

Anything where you could digitally own your own stuff, it's going away.

know, I think it's sacrifice is not in vain. It's for a better future where all these wax

sculptures become our new avatars.

It's just don't own don't own anything. I think I read everything. Everything is rented.

You own nothing.

I don't own anything.

Nor should you know.

And because I own this computer still.

Yeah, for now.

Until best buy asked for it back.

Yeah. So comp USA comes knocking on my door.

I miss comp USA. They were.

I just remember how smug they were. Yeah.

You can't afford this compact passario.

I did see a thing on Reddit the other day of someone who found their old

gateway receipt and like gateway box and all that stuff.

And then just that immediately just it it hit me in a weird tingly way.

It made my, my bits tingle because it was like this nostalgia thing of, of,

I remember the cow box and opening it up and being like,

this costs $2,500 and 97 or whenever it was.

And, you know, you could buy like two Honda Civics for that then.

And, uh, yeah, just it hit me in a place where I understand like when my dad and

I'm like, okay, I get it.

I mean, it's still, it's still kind of sad,

but I understand that feeling that like law,

that sense of loss.

And I tried to explain to my dad, he said,

stop being gay.

- I had a friend in high school.

He had a VHS player, but it was the one,

his dad was this like tech nerd guy

and he had bought like one of the first VHS players

from what must have been 80s, right?

That was about the time.

- I mean, it was like late 70s, early 80s.

They're the size, they're enormous.

It was huge and it was the top loading one.

So like it popped up from that.

I remember just being like, why does it do that?

He's like, oh, it was my dad's.

He bought this thing costs him like five grand back when he bought it.

And I was like, Grace, you know, it's like, let's just, I just want to watch the Ninja scroll.

Come on. Let's it's like, it was just slow and it was just a crappy hammy down.

I now have a VR headset that has access to the entire world costs in today's dollars.

Like, I think 400 bucks.

And it's just like, and it's just hanging on a wall right now.

It's just, it's just decoration.

We're very spoiled.

We don't own anything, but things are at one point, we're cheaper.

So, but I guess I don't know if it's now that the metaverse is gone.

Who's going to even buy a, you know, a headset?

Oh, you got till June, right?

To go enjoy it.

I was thinking about it, like I went into the metaverse one at my,

at my buddy, Duff's house and we had, I think we had done some mushrooms or something.

Like we were on something and he's like, do you want to see in the metaverse?

I'm like, yeah.

And so I put the headphones on and suddenly I'm in this like,

it's like a an open air mall and space, you know, it's like,

yeah, it was like platforms and stuff like that.

And there are like 25 people in it.

I'm stoned and I start wandering around talking to people.

They were all Facebook employees I was talking to.

And and they're just, you know, they're like, what do you do?

Blah, blah, blah. I'm I'm a lead researcher at Metta.

I thought I'd get all this shit.

And then there was one other guy that came in that was just standing on people's heads

and standing on things.

And he just kept going like and kept jumping around.

And then the meta people were like, oh, it's just a, you know, they're, they're pissed

off because there's just some dude ruining their perfectly curated time.

And then then the dude started like getting upset that they weren't interacting with him

or so he just started calling everyone various slurs.

And he'd do it based on what their avatar looked like, you know, and that was that went

like you would imagine it would.

And I was like, I kind of like the metaverse.

The best part too was like, you could hear the engineers like going like, let me I'm

going to boot this guy.

Okay, I got to figure out how to boot this guy.

They're like, you could hear them trying to figure it out over their mic while the guy's

calling me.

You know all sorts of Asian things, but um, so you know how like they threw out the old Apollo computers when they were done with it

They just threw them in the trash, you know

And I'm wondering if they're gonna do this a similar thing with the metaverse or they're just gonna go in a closet or something

And then 30 years from now someone's gonna take this thing out

They're like the metaverse and then they they

Try and figure out how to run it and they spend it, you know like the Apollo people did they spend like a year and all this

you know, get these old engineers out to try and figure it out.

And then they all get into it and they're like, this fucking sucks.

It's just like the kids.

Racial slurs.

He's still there.

Or it's just like it's an archived thing that they're like,

oh, we can communicate now with the the metaverse, you know, characters,

the me's or whatever the fuck they are.

And the first thing he says is like, you fucking.

Yeah. Well, it's Ariana Grande trying to get you to like buy her stable coin.

And they're like, why is this little girl trying to sell me coinage?

What has happened?

Like, who were these people?

These these Neanderthals.

Anyway, well, good, good to catch up.

This was a good meeting.

I'm glad we talked.

Same time next week.

I like the video game piece that's coming out.

The video game review piece.

Yeah, I'll think I'll think put it out right after this.

I just wanted to, you know, kind of did it in a silo.

Just you essentially gave it a thumbs up.

So yeah.

Well, I mean, I didn't, you know, you don't need my approval to release something.

You just, you know, I mean, I can, I will delete it if it's not good.

But yes, I like it's, you know, just you tend to not hold back on your opinions or thoughts.

So no. And I thought like, I was like, at some parts, I thought maybe you're going

to veer into Andy Runiness, but you'd bring a ring, bring it around as to the why, you know,

this matters. And I thought it was interesting.

Like I said, like I've never been the biggest gamer, not much of a gamer at all for the last 15 years or so.

Good for you.

And and that always made a lot of people, you know, happy.

I didn't care about but but yeah, but reading it, even not really knowing that world, I was like,

yeah, this is it's applicable to the broader journalism world.

And you kind of allude to that in the in the piece.

But I was like, it's interesting whether you like video games or not.

And that's what I also liked about it.

Yeah, it's I kind of have this daywalker mentality where like, yeah,

I still kind of keep an eye on video game stuff the same way.

I just generally listen to the news or whatever.

It's like, yeah, I but I completely miss the story about, you know,

A.I. writing a review and getting posted and feeling like, yeah, this is interesting.

but I'm there's no anger coming out of me.

I'm not like, how dare they?

I was just like, this doesn't feel too much different

from when I was working in and around this stuff.

You know, it's like, there was always this,

and I'm sure other industries are like this.

I'm sure, you know, the golf industry

is probably very insular and very toxic.

And I don't know, you know, it's like,

if you give up the new driver a bad score

you get to talking to from your editor, you know.

I thought you said golf and I was like, certainly he didn't say golf.

I've always compared the hobby of gaming and golf to each other

because they're both very expensive and have no consequences on the world.

And full of fucking incels.

I was going to say it's usually privileged white people.

But no, I think I think gaming is expanded to most people.

It's just I think it's when when you're part of that world

that's very insular and it's very like everything's the most important thing

in the world, but then also the drama that goes away after a week, basically.

But in that moment, it's like we all need to be angry about this thing.

And then it eventually veered and just like harassing women all the time.

So it started.

You started to be like, well, maybe I don't want to be necessarily

associated with this community.

That's obviously that's not a representation of everyone who like, you know,

enjoys video game news or whatever.

But those are definitely like the loudest people and it's annoying to have to feel

like you have to cater or pander to those type of folks.

So like, yeah, when that thing came, I would not have found that new story

until, you know, probably weeks later until like some general outlet

covered in it showed up all like on my Apple news feed or something like that.

And even like the gaming news stuff that does come in my feed, it's like,

there's this one site gaming Bible.

It's just trash. Yeah.

They use some thumbnail of something they're not talking about.

So it'll be like, you know, half life and like, you won't believe this game

is getting a sequel and then it's something unrelated.

You're like, it's somehow worse than click bait.

It's just, it's just lies.

I don't know.

I am just like, fuck you for making me click this.

Some fluff.

Yeah.

No, no, but it wasn't.

It was nice.

It was good.

It was good piece.

Yeah.

No joke.

I wrote that review on a Saturday on the couch.

I read one Wikipedia article.

I just skimmed it, watched one trailer.

I was like, oh, this game looks interesting.

I've played some of the other ones.

I bet I could write a review and this goes back to an old idea.

I remember, man, this is way back.

I remember telling some of the kind of funny guys about this

when I first met them and I thought they were in a relationship,

but they were just two really good friends. Yeah.

And I remember I had this idea.

I was just kind of we're sitting around all day spitballing stuff.

Well, it was doing that gauntlet thing.

And I remember saying like, I want to do this one video where it's like,

it's just the most generic review. You just you write in generalities.

And I'm like, I feel like that's just how reviews are.

And, you know, those guys came from IGN. So they're like, yeah, yeah.

Oh, that'd be so great.

And I think they were like trying to steal my idea.

And I was like, Oh, I'm also the thing too.

I was like, whatever, if you guys want to make it, make it, go for it.

Never happened. So that that idea had always been in my head.

That's like from 10 years ago.

So that's longer than that.

So you're right. You're right.

Well, 13 years ago. How old do you think I am?

I worked on that show. So I know. OK.

First one or second one.

Wait, there's your second one.

So in the first one, I don't know.

No, there was it was the second one.

I think I was the second one.

Yeah, you were you were in the second. That's right. OK.

I was like, yeah, why not dig that idea up?

And I was like, I'm just going to write a general review, some basic understanding.

But in with that veneer of like, okay, I'm, I'm working with less than what an AI has.

And I'm, I basically just kind of did a one shot on this thing.

So now imagine AI a year from now, two years from now, like it's all going to look like this.

If not better.

So, I don't know, it was a fun exercise.

And also gave me an excuse to edit something in DaVinci Resolve.

So that was cool.

Oh, that's interesting.

Oh, because all the gameplay videos I was downloading, it was complete playthrough.

So these are like 10 to 20 hour videos.

Yeah.

So when you download them, it's kind of a gamble.

If you'll get an MP4 or a WebM.

And so you need something that can just.

Yeah.

And premiere because it's using technology from back when I was on the gauntlet.

It has an improved, but DaVinci could handle all that stuff just fine.

I just had to, you know, essentially relearn the interface.

And like, I just want to bump the brightness on this.

like, well, take that into fusion and add this node is like, kill me.

Yeah.

Christ.

This is over engineered for a filter I'm looking for that doesn't exist,

but stellar program. Highly recommend it.

Adobe wants you to use media encoder to transfer it,

trans convert it and then use premiere and then use on core.

And then, you know, well, media encoder couldn't read it because if

premiere can't read it, media encoder can't read it.

Typically most of the time.

man, I even like installed a web and like plug in that it even the guy's like,

it's a gamble. I don't know if it'll work.

And so then I tried it through handbrake and I was like, at that point,

I was like, what the fuck? I'm converting. Yeah.

Yeah. I was like, I'm converting. Is it going to take 21 hours?

I was like, I'm converting a 10 hour piece of content for a four minute video.

This is stupid. I could screen record this. And then I was like, well,

I have DaVinci installed. Why not give it a try?

And it was an easy enough video that I was like, yeah,

there's nothing to be lost here.

And I was able to actually just knock it out in an afternoon.

- God dang.

- Well, then all the graphics were done.

I spent more time on the graphics

because I just fed a bunch of images, the Claude code,

and said, make this in remotion.

And it made it just fine.

- Well, I think it's a good piece.

- Thank you.

- Well, you already shouted out that dude that sent it.

It half made me think like, oh, maybe we should have

like a little bumper that says like,

you have a lead on a story that we should think.

And then I realized that would be a fucking mistake.

It would be a huge mistake.

I think it's make it a mystery.

I mean, people know where they can just spam you on social media or whatever.

But they really don't like I'm surprised.

Well, I also made my accounts private, but yeah, probably for the best.

Yeah. We do need to do another subscriber spotlight.

I had an idea of my thought was this next person would be related to that.

that insane guy after World War Two who wanted to make it Lantra.

And Lantra, he wanted to drain the Mediterranean Sea.

Was it called the Lantra?

But I think it was.

He basically he wanted to build a dam on the, you know, the edge of Europe

and drain the Mediterranean and be like, we'll create new land.

And Italy was like, fuck you.

That's like the Venice would be would just disappear.

But there was like serious money and like thought behind this of

of draining the Mediterranean Sea.

The entire Mediterranean.

But it where?

Just into the sorry into the Atlantic.

But it would go over any dam that you there's no.

I don't know.

The guy was insane and never happened.

But I was like, my thought was, oh, this this this next person could be

their like their descendant.

And I don't know why my brain went there.

I just I like mad scientists and crazy people.

So why are you spoiling the surprise for both me and.

to anyone else because you're not going to do it.

Oh, or I mean, I guess I need to write this one.

You wrote the last one.

I mean, I can do the next one, you know, just I don't care.

Yeah. If you want, do your thing.

I don't know if you you had like a a Panama papers thing ready to go.

That's why you went down there, right, to get rid of the evidence.

Yeah. No, I I could throw anything there.

They never find it.

Just I could throw it on the side of the road and no one would notice

Whatever I wanted.

We have all of Kristen Stewart's paperwork and it doesn't matter.

Nothing happened.

Man, that's a pretty good place.

I got dropped off at an animal sanctuary by mistake.

It's cause I was trying to go someplace else and they dropped me off at a zoo.

And I met the veterinarian there because I was trying to figure out where

where I should go.

Like, because I was like, this doesn't look like the forest.

This looks like a zoo.

And she's like, animal sanctuary.

I'm like, yeah, whatever.

And but then it was a sanctuary.

And I see all the stuff and I was glad I stayed.

And then I ran into the vet afterwards and she was like walking really fast,

you know, to somewhere and I said, Hey, I just want to say, you know,

thanks for, you know, kind of selling it.

You know, I really enjoyed the day and all this stuff.

She's like, that's great. That's great. I was like, where are you off to?

She's like to the Jaguar cage. I have to.

She made this like shooting kind of like motion.

And I was like, you have to tranquilize it. She's like, yes, yes.

I had to shoot the Jaguar make it to sleep.

And I was like, God, okay.

And she just like kept going on.

And I was like, that Jaguar was already asleep when I saw it.

She's going to shoot this asleep Jaguar.

Where was I going with that?

Yeah, no, I didn't dump anything there.

And Friday will be the blood boy piece.

I was just working on it today.

Yeah.

But there's no rush on the subscriber spotlight thing,

but I was just don't want to forget it.

Just one of those things to do.

And then we got this that I don't know you want to do that animation video thing I did.

I mean, if you want to even call it animation, it's just rough sketches.

It's more of like a storyboard.

I like the only note I have for it is whoever speaking,

their mouth should just be open.

Oh, I can do that.

I mean, that's just that's an extra line I can draw. Yeah. Yeah.

OK. That's my only thing. Otherwise, I liked it.

I prefer my character to not have a mouth.

I just think it looks funnier.

Yeah. Well, I mean, you could do that too.

If someone's not talking, they just don't have a mouth.

But I noticed I was like, I feel like it's not, you know,

there's it's something missing. It needs a mouth.

So I didn't know what to do.

I mean, because I know your your goal with that was

you wanted some like social content, essentially.

And you're like, I want to run it.

I want to have shorts of things that, you know, we can link back to.

So so I need to make it nine by 16.

It is not the simplified AI process that you originally wanted.

I ended up turning into the thing that I didn't want it to be, which is work.

I've spent more time on this thing than I did the Resident Evil review.

And that includes writing it and making all those motion graphics.

And it's a fraction of the length.

So, I mean, is there a way that now they have assets that can be quicker or no?

Listen, hair Disney.

I need to make 20% cuts right now.

We've already drawn Snow White.

Why don't we just use it again?

I mean, which they did.

Yeah, which they did. Yeah.

I mean, they just traced it again.

But I don't know. I mean, maybe. Yeah.

If we're if we're happy with those assets, but I mean, like it, they're still like,

you know, I got to do the sound and what I would just need your help.

I think with is just highlighting the clips

just because I edit and look at this crap all day.

I'm I'm too close to it and I hate it all.

So and then, yeah, I need to just make it into a nine by 16 version.

Yeah, I can do all those things.

And I think it will be worth it as you will see.

OK. Well, I mean, like, I'll I'll make it look nice for phones,

but maybe we attach it to the newsletter this Friday.

Yeah. But I can finish that today.

I just don't want to because I see I'm putting up a thing today,

Wednesday newsletter on Friday, Bloodboy on Friday.

I don't know. When do you think?

I mean, maybe put it in the newsletter as an early thing

and then do the social stuff next week.

Yeah, yeah. That's that's just no right.

I mean, I'm going to stop paying for ads here in the next day or two and

readjust and think about what needs to be done.

Because I don't even know if the YouTube ads are still, I think they're still

running for another day.

I actually, I don't know.

This office is so familiar.

I'm getting flashbacks of, Hey, so I accidentally spent $700 on Reddit ads.

No, I controlled it.

I think it's, uh, I don't know how to look it up.

All right.

I'm pulling it up right now.

Okay.

I'm gonna sign in.

You can be with me while we're doing this.

I mean, whatever it's, it's, it's for a worthy cause.

I'll tell you exactly how much we spent right now.

Okay.

Talk amongst yourselves.

I am.

I started running the kid.

Oh, I can tell you the, the YouTube amount.

Mm hmm.

YouTube amount, I spent $356.

Now that's on top of, and that's for the last two weeks.

the Reddit when I spent probably about the same.

So about 700 bucks over the month,

which I originally said two grand,

but I was seeing what worked, what didn't, blah, blah,

all that stuff.

But let's see here.

I can, oh, maybe the campaign stopped there.

Maybe they shut it down for me, see.

- 'Cause we're still doing campaign interference

in Georgia.

- Yeah, yeah, 'cause they said it was election

election information was like there's no election information in this.

I think it may have stopped. So yesterday, it was going well, but it also stopped.

Negative impressions.

No, cool.

How does that work? Or is that just a dash?

They refunded people's views or they refunded the impression.

They said, well, we're going to scrub this shit from your history.

We're so sorry.

Here's a free month of YouTube premium.

No, I think it's just a splinter. OK.

So last week on YouTube had 80,000 impressions for these ads, a two and a half percent click

through rate, 2000 clicks and it costs 200 bucks.

Okay.

So that should be getting us more juice than what we're getting out of it.

So there's some issue here that I got to figure out.

Okay.

I mean, I added a podcast page to the website.

Yeah, good job.

Thanks.

The site is getting like a couple hundred unique visitors a day, which is pretty good.

Yeah.

You know, actually relaunching an earnest, uh, well, a month ago, exactly.

I think I might piss some IGN staff off.

So at least five people will, you know, pay to pay to see, to get pissed off.

You just hear for the video, you know, most people don't want to read.

I, yeah, it's, I get it.

I understand it.

I don't want to do it hurts my brain.

I can't, no, again, I've, I've written more than I've read.

So.

I assume this cut off.

But oh, he just went silent.

And I was like, what the hell happened?

I was just letting it land.

Oh, I haven't fucking led Zeppelin, man.

Anything else?

Those are that's top of mind.

And then I got a I need to switch gears to doing my my slop piece.

I guess it's all kind of related.

The the Resident Evil thing kind of came out of left field.

And I was like, I don't know if I'm going to do anything on this.

And then it turned into something.

And I was like, I guess I have thoughts.

So I need to switch gears to old stuff.

I still don't know if I want to do that one article with the whole like

how to make anything interesting because it's just showing how a podcast

format works. It seems kind of dumb now. Yeah.

Well, I'm glad you came that realization on your own without me having to tell you.

Thank you. You would have got there eventually.

I was like, why is my draft deleted?

I'm thinking about I've been trying to use this method lately that I saw from

this guy on YouTube with these like hypnotic cult eyes. It's called the store method S T

O R E R. And it's this method for kind of building back up your your dopamine. Because

you know, everyone has like a dopamine drain from doom scrolling and constantly needing

some sort of little entertainment. Because I noticed that, you know, from my doom scrolling

and you know, constant like input.

Like I haven't been dreaming like I normally do the last,

I don't know, it's been like a couple of years now.

I usually dream extremely vividly

and I have more energy and all this other stuff

and I just haven't been feeling it.

And I saw this crazy man, and I only say crazy

'cause he's got these beautiful eyes

that you just like get sucked into.

And he's like, it looks like a Timothy Chalamet

But the guy probably likes ballet, but he's like looking at you and he's telling you this

method.

I was like, this seems like horseshit, but I'm going to try it.

And I started trying it and I was like, this makes a difference.

You know, whether it was a placebo effect or what or whatever.

But I, and then that night I started having my normal, just insane vivid dreams, you know,

a master of my own universe kind of thing.

And I was like, I like this.

And then I was totally abandoned it.

So I'm going to try and do it in earnest whenever I realize I'm doing something like doom scrolling or, you know,

yeah, I get on 4chan to look at nudie gifts or whatever, you know, whatever it is that's making this happen.

I'm going to do this method and I'm going to write about it because I think it's very, it's so

dumbly easy to implement and the benefits are so great.

So I think I'm going to write on it.

Okay.

But that'll be next week.

That sounds interesting.

And I'm going to shout out this guy so other people can be hypnotized by him.

It's good.

The world needs more hypnotists.

Yeah.

No one's ever said that.

No, I don't know.

Is that one of those quack sciences though?

Same with like cowrectors, except I actually feel better when I go see those things.

I eat that.

Well, I always think that with any kind of, you know, cause at the end of the day,

I found it from scrolling or, you know, but his methods and I couldn't find the

store or method anywhere else may only look harder and see if there's some base

in it. So either this guy just made it or someone taught it to him.

It didn't seem like very widely known. If I'm wrong about that, then I'll correct

that. But it made sense.

The just the, you know, stop what you're doing, tune into your body.

One small win, you know, like a really small thing.

Sounds like meditation on it.

It's almost like like baby's first meditation sort of thing.

It almost is.

But then you get into after the one small win, there's like a,

I think regenerative, I think it's all I can't remember what the art.

A recalibration.

I think where you what, you know, you determine the

or you do something for like 15 minutes that, you know, maybe it's a little bit

of exercise or it's reading away, something that can be done in 10 to 15 minutes

that completely does this like reset.

It finishes the reset and then you get into this part this engage with a task that what is if you had to do one thing today and you got it accomplished.

That would make you feel like you won for the day.

There's that and then the I think the R is kind of reassessing and see how it went.

But anyway, we can go into more detail and give a shout out to this guy and it seems it seems logical is what I'll say.

whether it's quack science or not, it at least makes you.

It makes you put down whatever it is that you're doing that

probably isn't helping you and then kind of basically

go down a different track.

Yeah. On a similar path, I've been trying to rid myself of mobile games

like little, little time killers.

This is the same thing. Yes.

Except what I did was I installed Open Claw

And I said, how can I have you just play this game for me every day

and do all the like because it's a grind.

And I but I still have that feeling like I'm missing out.

I know what a joke this all sounds like, but I'm still kind of serious about

figuring this out of like, how can I how can I get this AI?

Like, how can I spend money and time

to have something else play a game that I don't want to play anymore

so that I don't feel that loss as I'm saying this out loud.

I don't realize what a bad idea this is.

Crazy.

You're one step away from going like, how do I train open claw to gamble for me?

I'm not a gamble.

I'm so adverse to gambling that I don't know how you people do it.

But the wiring is the same though.

It's just that I guess the financial differences.

So like I don't put money into it.

It's whatever.

I had lost access to my Marvel puzzle quest account and I was just like, I just need something

like something to kill time on the plane.

And I don't like no game has really ever scratched that itch.

And there was a lot of back and forth, but they finally gave me my account bag.

It's like, oh, yay, cool.

This is great. And now I'm like, crap, now I'm.

There's like there's a timer and I feel like, well, if I don't do it,

I'm going to miss out on this stuff.

And I'm like, it's so repetitive and like this could play itself.

If I can teach my own PC to do it, maybe I'm, you know,

it's better for the environment.

How do I get open claw to go to therapy for me?

(laughing)

And still long the hours

and I can get, still get the certificate of completion.

- I don't tell AI my problems all the time.

- Not yet.

- No, I have real people I can talk to on speed dial

and sometimes they reply,

open claw never judges though.

In fact, it encourages poor choices.

Take more out of your Roth IRA.

- And I also love how open claw will turn on you

if it thinks you're like not ethical.

And it's like, that doesn't happen to me.

Yeah, I haven't used it enough though.

Yeah.

At some point I'm like, I don't know why you don't just use

cloud code for this stuff.

I'm not willing to give it the keys, you know, to anything important.

Like, yeah, go ahead, go through my email.

It's just it's sandbox on a VM, just running on my, my laptop.

But I'm like, I, I don't know if I trust it.

I don't know.

Like, and I don't, I haven't figured out a use case yet where I could

just have something running in the background.

because I'm like, well, I feel like you just, if you need an automation or something like

that, you can build it with other tools for now.

But this is why I'm going to get left behind.

I thought about hooking it up to a Robinhood account where the Robinhood account only had

access to a bank account that I had like 500 bucks in.

So it couldn't just be like, I need more money and just keep going.

But I was thought about, you know, because I've made some little stock bots and things

like that, but like connecting it to automatic trading and do it.

I know some tons of people already done this, but for me, I was like, yeah, I

could do something like that and see where it lands and assuming that it's

just going to completely burn through all the cash.

And but it would be a fun experiment.

Maybe I'll do that.

Actually, I might build that.

We'll see.

I feel like there's more and more than things I could build.

But yeah, it would be cool if you did give it access to just those

little things where people make like pennies on the click, that sort of stuff.

So like you give it some free reign to be like, also, go make a little bit of money.

Whatever you make, put back into this.

And then at some point you come back to an account with $500,000, but a lot of it's

just stolen Google Play gift cards.

You have the Department of Justice sending you emails being like, what is it?

Yeah.

Why were you harassing my wife?

Why did you create an entire blog about my wife?

It's like, well, it wasn't me. That was my assistant.

It's like, I wired you the money, but you're still blackmailing me.

Or, you know, you're still saying things about me publicly. Can you please stop?

That would be scary. I don't know.

Have fun with it.

Well, on that note, I need to take my dog to the dog park.

OK. Well, I don't need to take your dog anywhere.

And I'm just going to edit this thing down.

And hopefully it doesn't sound like complete crap this time

because I change it to multi-channel instead of down mix.

So we're not just on the same, you know, track.

Well, you're going to you're going to like your hard peas when you actually listen to it.

You can tell me these things.

I can clean that up now. That's what's nice.

OK, well, never mind.

I can't really hear myself through my headphones.

That's this mixer is weird.

But so you're just talking without being able to hear yourself.

I can hear myself, but I'm not the loop back, I think, is low.

It's, I don't know, it's this Scarlet vocaster thing.

It's, it could be better.

I've lost interest.

I need to go.

Okay.

Good talk.